Degree attestation facility opening shortly

Islamabad: After Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi, the Higher Education Commission has planned to make the degree attestation facility available in Quetta, too.
Currently, the HEC, the country’s sole government-run higher education regulator, attests degrees, detailed marks certificates, provisional certificates and diplomas issued by Pakistani universities and degree awarding institutions at its headquarters in Islamabad and regional centres in Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi. Besides, it also determines the equivalence of foreign degrees or ‘deeni asnaad’ (seminary educational certificates). Under the current circumstances, people of Balochistan either visit HEC headquarters in Islamabad for the attestation of educational documents or send them in by courier. Now, according to a relevant official, in order to facilitate the people in the country’s largest province, the top HEC management has decided to extend the facility of attestation of local degrees and diplomas at its regional centre in Quetta. He said there was a high likelihood that the degree attestation facility would be formally launched by HEC chairman Professor Mukhtar Ahmad in the provincial capital next week possibly on March 25.